Living in Japan

Tokyo Station Water Park

The renovations on the west side of Tokyo Station are largely complete and families on the hot summer weekends get the chance to watch their children play…

Kyoto Botanic Gardens

Sakura at Kyoto Incline

The Incline at Keage in Kyoto is the old train line where barges would come down from Lake Biwa to Kyoto. Close to Nanzenji, where you can still see the Aquaduct, the Incline is a popular place in Spring due to all of the beautiful Sakura trees planted here. On a spring sunny day in Kyoto, this is one of the magical places to visit.

Morning Walk in the snow

I took a quick morning walk to catch some sun and was surprised it had started snowing. Just a few scenes here of nothing much. My hands started to freeze…

Kyoto City Fire Department Parade

Each year the Kyoto City Fire Department have a small parade and demonstration of their fire fighting skills. They show the assembled crowd near Okazaki…

Shinagawa Station - Morning Rush

My morning meeting gave me a birds eye view of the rush hour traffic at Shinagawa Station a few weeks back.

Visiting Shibuya: Tokyoite Favourite!

Shibuya is perhaps most famous as the iconic image of the crazy Japanese road crossings, a bustle of hundreds of people crossing five ways across painted…

Spring weather, Autumn reflection

The Spring weather seems to be hiding just around the corner as the trees start to get ready to show us their color. As we get ready for the colors of…

Hiroshima Book

I finished putting together another book on Canon's PhotoPresso site. This one is from a trip to Hiroshima. You can see other books in the shibuya246…

Sakura and HDR

A while ago I showed a few HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos on the site which I had taken with my Nikon camera. One photo of HDR is actually made up of 5…

Tokyo Elections 2011

This weekend is election time for Tokyo and many Prefectures. The 2 big name candidates in Tokyo are the incumbent Ishihara-san and former Governor of…

Earthquake evacuations, Tokyo

There was a major earthquake today in Japan in the North just off the coast of Sendai. Reports at the moment are saying it is somewhere between magnitude…

Winter face masks

I caught a cold recently, so have been wearing a face mask at night when sleeping to try and keep my throat from getting to dry. I found these eucalyptus…

Early Morning Ebisu Walk

I was up early and decided to take a walk around Ebisu and towards Naka-Meguro. It was dark at the start and without a tripod some of the photos were a…

Merry Xmas

Merry Xmas to all of the shibuya246 readers. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Season. This is the tree at the Westin Hotel in Kyoto, where I…

Japan Book

I have been printing a bunch of my photos from recent trips whilst thinking about a book project that has been on my mind for a while. Not sure the final…

Boss in Ebisu

The "Boss" looks over the crossing here in Ebisu. The sky was really powdery today, almost like marshmallow clouds. Great scene. How is your Saturday…

Tokyo Weekend

The weather has cooled down and this weekend was really nice, even though we had some stiff breezes and a little rain. Autumn is one of my favorite times…